"A man has but two concerns in life: to be honorable in what he does, and resigned under what happens to him."
"If any one misconduct himself towards thee, what is that to thee? The deed is his; and therefore let him look to it."
"Welcome everything that happens as necessary and familiar."
Marry, a glow of honest self-satisfaction is cheaply traded for a wad of current specie, and an inkling into the ways of a bold and thirsty world. Methinks I have "arrived"; I have attained a courteous composure proof against mortal hurricanes. Life is no longer a rude and trivial comedy with the Beautifully Bulldozed, who feels able to warm to his own catastrophe, and even to cry, "Pray, madam, don't mention it," to an apologizing lady in a gig, who drives over him and kills him, and does so, moreover, in the most bungling manner in the world.
1892.
[REMINISCENCES OF A FINE
GENTLEMAN]
